Footage. Various shots of businesses, factories, farming, and social life in the North Okanagan and Shuswap regions. Armstrong shots include: overview of valley, Triangle Poultry Farm, main street businesses, rail yard and station, prosperous family at home, Golden Gate Cafe, Interior Provincial Exhibition livestock competition, horse race, fairgrounds. Enderby footage shows main street, including Sutherland's Bakery and King Edward Hotel, bus on highway, pasturing of cattle, celery packing. Salmon Arm subjects include Safe Community Store and other store fronts, box mill, fruit packing, a bottling plant, a man guzzling soft drinks, men examining a crop field, apple packing, railway station, more packing, Shuswap Lake. Last shots show a display of Okanagan apples and fruit (in the Okanagan or at the PNE, Vancouver?).

The item is a reel of documentary film from 1930 titled Ayrshire cattle sales at Armstrong and Kamloops. "Excellent pan of Kamloops from height, looking down eventually into a street lined with cars. Indians in full regalia on appaloosa ponies. Bronco riding in a ring. Celery field and harvesting near Armstrong, B.C. Field of cabbage. Pan of fertile bottomlands. Salmon Arm farmers visit illustration station where Exhibition corn is grown. A combine in action drawn by a tractor. A two-horse team hauls the cart to collect the wheat. Stocks of grain in a field being loaded onto a horse-drawn wagon. Scenes of Ayrshire auction at Armstrong: Mat Hassen presents Percy French with winner's trophy. Ayrshire prizes awarded. Dunwaters, Davidson, Forest & Wells, outstanding at auction. Auction: $305.00 average for 30 two-year heifers. New owners parade their purchases. The Laird of Fintry. Pan of cattle. Fall fair at Lumby, crowded grounds & buildings. Veteran MLA J. H. Schofield of Trail. Donald Graham, a 'veteran of the first Riel Rebellion, 1870, poses. He came to the Okanagan Valley in 1874." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of b&w film footage from 1935. It has scenes of the Interior Provincial Exhibition: equestrian and other sporting events; horse and cattle shows.